Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-07-22
THE CHAUTAUQUA.
Interesting Report Of the Pro-
ceedfmns Vasterdnv

| 3 :3O A. NJ. led by Rev. lnwood OF On
tario. Rev. DIR. Ostrander of New
York led in prayer. The leader said
after reading the third chapter o.
Philippians that the great conflict oi
this age was that between science and
religion. He thought that the exer.
cises of the next three weeks would
surely lead to the great fact that there
is q difference between divergence
and opposition.
At 8 O'Clock DR.. Ostrander, promi-
nently connected with Chautauqua
Assemblies since their inception,
opened the Normal School connected
with the Assembly. The Bible is the
central book in all this study. We
must understand where, when, how
the Bible was written. He illustrated
the best manner of studying the
Bible in very interesting manner,
showing how we should classify its
great truths. Your reporter left while
he was giving lessons in biblical geog-
raphy on the blackboard.
The School of Anesthetics was next
visited. Miss A. Wardwell, Superin-
tendent and Miss Francis McCreery,
pianist. The attendance was small
but will doubtless attract much inter-
est during the Assembly.
AT 10 A. NJ. Rev. Geo. w. White of
Alhambra delivered lecture of rare
merit entitled, "a Literary Exile
Victor Hugo" 1t would require sew
eral columns to do Justice to this ad-
mirable address.
He began by graphically describing
the imposing ceremonies at the unveil-
ing of his statue in Paris, December
27, 1880. France had never witnessed
anything so grand, creating an en-
thusiasm unparalleled in any land.
Born in 1902, in that revolutionary
age, revolution was woven into the
very fiber of his being, and at the
early age of 13 he seized the pen
mightier than the sword" denouncing
in scathing language the despot who
had fallen upon the field of Waterloo.
'Tremble, thou despot. at the avenging hand
of fate,
Down to its doom thine odious Empire State:
Tremble for though thy lustful, cursed
pride,
Covets to conquer, burns to vanquish all,
Yet thy delirium hath outrun itself;
And all thy schemes of selfish glory fall"
No wonder the leading literary man
of the age applied to him the term,
"The sublime child" In one of his
poems, he says at that early day, "who
hates a tyrant, he must love king"
But in more mature years a change
came over him-a sad change-which
he afterwards sorely regretted. In
early manhood he clung with sycophan-
tic zeal to the Bourbon cause, and
"adorned the ignoble brow Of
Charles X. with honors almost
divine" Up to the age Of forty, he
had scarcely a peer in the literary
world. He was a reformer of litera-
ture, in an age when the press was
under ban, and libraries were burned
at the behest of tyrant King.
The part he acted in the great and
last revolution under Napoleon the
III, when under the pretense of Re-
he was stealthily laying
his plans to mount the Imperial
throne, was very beautifully and i'm
portrayed. In the assembly
to establish a Republic,
Hugo sat near Napoleon, generally
voting with him; but when, by his
keen vision, he saw through the net
work covering his plans to seize the
throne, his marvellous powers, after
q short deliberation, were arrayed on
the side of liberty, and he became
a radical Republican. He did not
slack his zeal, till he saw the down.
fall of the third Napolean.
Being heartily ashamed of his ante
he wrote ON the margin of
some of his earlier manuscript 'The
nonsense l wrote before was born."
How strange is history! This same
revolutionist, when his raven locks
we're turned to silvery whiteness,
lvowed himself as opposed to blood,
md was President of Peace Con-
yress, convened from all Europe, in the
,ity of Paris. In his opening address,
ne said to the delegates, "You have
,ome to turn over, it maybe, the last
md most important pages of the Cos
page that ordains peace and
good will among the children of the |
me Creator" This Congress was
leld on the anniversary of st. Bar
Day.
He said: "On this very day, 277
,ears ago, this city OF Paris was aroused
n terror amid the darkness of the
light and bloody deed, unprecedent-
ID in the annals of crime, was perpe-
rated. And now, on that self-same
lay, in that self-same city, God has
brought together, into one general con-
,ourse, the representatives of that old
and has hidden them
transform their sentiments into senti-
nents Of love. Well-nigh beneath the
hadow of that tower, whence tolled
he fatal vespers of st. Bartholomew,
lot only Englishmen and Frenchmen,
Germans and Italians, Europeans and
but actually Papists and
have been happy to meet
md unite themselves in one embrace,
like and indissoluble.
A short sentence from this lecture
md our space will be filed:
"It was in September, 1870. The
war was swiftly
lealing out French defeat. Mar
hal Bazaine, with 10000 men,
vas hemmed in at Metz.
The Emperor, with $4,000 veterans,
lad just cap 'tulated at Sedan, and the
Notorious Germans were rapidly ad-
yancing to the memorable siege of
Paris. 1t was dark hour, brt into
hat darkness there came gleam Of
light. The Republic was again pro-
,laimed. The captive Emperor was
dethroned, and the exiles
we're summoned home. In The midst
# rainstorm Hugo arrived, and his
coming brought hope to the sinking
,ause. The streets were crowded to
eceive him. On brawny shoulders
he was carried in triumph to a plat
orm and asked tospeak. Uncovering
lis head, on which the raven locks
1ad changed to silver gray since last
ne called them brothers, and while
he weeping heavens above him
their foods with his tears, he |